Angèle Diabang Brener

Senegalese screenwriter, director and film producer

Angèle Diabang Brener
Born	1979 Dakar, Senegal
Education	Média Centre de Dakar, La Fémis in Paris, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, director and film producer
Years active	2005-present

Angèle Diabang Brener is a Senegalese screenwriter, director and film producer.^[1]

Early life and education

Angèle Diabang Brener was born in Dakar in 1979. Her training and education in film making took place in Dakar at the Média Centre de Dakar, subsequently at the French state film school La Fémis in Paris, and then at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany.^[2]

Career

She began her career as a film editor then in 2005 she directed her first film, a documentary on the beauty standards for Senegalese women entitled "Mon beau sourire".^[2]^[3] She runs the production company Karoninka which is credited with over a dozen films.^[2]

Filmography

2005 : Mon beau sourire^[4]^[5]
2007 : L’Homme est le remède de l’homme, with Ousseynou Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou "Leuz" Niang
2007 : Le Revers de l'exil^[3]
2007 : Sénégalaises et Islam
2008 : Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor^[6]
2014 : Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes^[2] A documentary on the work of Dr Denis Mukwege.

Awards

For Sénégalaises et Islam

2007 - Jury Prize at Festival Images citoyennes (Liège, Belgium)
2007 - Mention spéciale (Jury distinction) at the Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (Apt Festival of African Films, Apt, France)

References

^ Angèle Diabang Brener at IMDb
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Une cinéaste sénégalaise filme des Congolaises victimes de violences" (in French). Sabine Cessou, Rfi.fr, 21 November 2014 (fr)
^ ^a ^b "Biography of Angèle Diabang on Africiné.org" (in French).
^ (in French)Sénégalaises et islam Archived June 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine on Jeune Afrique
^ (in French)Mon beau sourire Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine on Africultures.com
^ Le Quotidien, Horizon Angèle Diabang, réalisatrice, productrice : « Etre cinéaste, ce n'est pas capter un moment et le montrer sur YouTube » (23 February 2019) [1] (Retrieved 2 June 2019)